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Volkswagen: Brand's sales 2.4% lower in November

Associated Press
Published 8:45 a.m. ET Dec. 11, 2015

Volkswagen has been hit by fallout from the emissions-cheating scandal which erupted in mid-September.

Volkswagen appeared in federal court in Detroit on Friday, March 10, 2017 to plead guilty to cheating on emissions tests. The scandal has engulfed the Wolfsburg, Germany based company. Here, a street sign can be seen in front of the illuminated logo of German car maker Volkswagen on Dec. 10, 2015.(Photo: Julian Stratenschulte, Getty Images)

BERLIN — Volkswagen says worldwide car sales by its core VW brand were 2.4 lower in November than a year earlier. For the year's first 11 months, sales dropped 4.5%.

The company said today that Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 496,100 vehicles last month, down from 508,400 in November 2014. January-November deliveries dropped to some 5.34 million from 5.59 million.

Volkswagen has been hit by fallout from the emissions-cheating scandal which erupted in mid-September.

The Volkswagen brand delivered 6.12 million cars in total last year.

Volkswagen sales executive Juergen Stackmann noted the 4.5% drop through November and said: "in view of the situation of the brand, which is currently challenging, I do not expect that we will be able to compensate for this fall in the remaining days of the year."

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